Scuttlebutt

Scuttlebutt
Author :
Publisher : Press Gang Publishers
Total Pages : 220
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105112842484
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Scuttlebutt by : Jana L. Williams

Download or read book Scuttlebutt written by Jana L. Williams and published by Press Gang Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Publishers Weekly : Seaman recruit Roberta Weston's first days at Navy boot camp are a nightmare of police whistles, roll calls, unshined shoes and lonely nights. But she quickly learns to sort things out, organize her locker and keep her place in line. Six weeks later, her Oxfords gleaming, she's a full-fledged Navy woman. Her status as an adult is also assured by a surprising insight: she is a lesbian, and the Navy is a racist and homophobic institution. This coming-of-age tale is Williams's first novel, and full as it is of astute observations on a worthy subject, it nonetheless betrays the writer's inexperience. The book's brighter passages give way to paragraphs that read like something out of a Navy instruction manual. The novel is set during the Vietnam War, but apart from passing references to draft-dodging and men's long hair, it contains no hint of social turmoil. Instead, Weston spends most of the novel bursting with admiration for military life, and her discovery of her own homosexuality comes a little too late, and a little too quickly, to give the story the dramatic tension it needs." via amazon.ca


Scuttlebutt Related Books

Scuttlebutt
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Jana L. Williams
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Press Gang Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"From Publishers Weekly : Seaman recruit Roberta Weston's first days at Navy boot camp are a nightmare of police whistles, roll calls, unshined shoes and lonely
The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Pat Dorsey
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-04 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing "By resisting both the popular tendency to use gimmicks that oversimplify securities analysis and the academic ten
The Storytelling Animal
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Jonathan Gottschall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human
Saltie
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Caroline Fidanza
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: Chronicle Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The creators of this beloved Brooklyn eatery share seventy-five simple, sophisticated, and thoroughly satisfying recipes in this charmingly illustrated cookbook
Into Helmand with the Walking Dead
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Miles Vining
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-31 - Publisher: Pen and Sword History

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Two marines share their experiences of serving in Afghanistan and dealing with the shock of returning home to civil society. The Marines of First Battalion, Nin